So I'm Going To Be A Sophomore.

Hey everybody!

So as many of you know, I completed my first year of college back in May and I had a blast. Well, it's July now and summer is wrapping up quickly and August is going to be here before any of us know what happened to July (and June...and May). Anyway, I've heard that sophomore year is the forgotten year of college because we're not cute little freshmen anymore, but we're not upper-classmen yet, either. I decided that I'm going to prove this theory false by having a fabulously awesome sophomore year; one that even tops my Freshman year (which will be difficult to do). Now I'm going to tell you why I think sophomore year is going to be amazing.

We're Babes
As I said earlier, we're not babies, but we are babes. I'm not sure what that means, but I decided we are, so we are and that's pretty cool.

Leadership
All of us have passed that brand new to campus, don't really know what we're doing phase, sort of, and now have opportunities to step into leadership roles, which is great! The cool part about that is we're just a year older than the freshmen, so we're not too intimidating, and we're pretty easy to relate to (I think) because we were in their position just a year ago. I'm just so excited to welcome the class of 2018 to campus in just a few short weeks I basically can't contain myself!

Weirdness
The cool thing about having a year of college under my belt is that I know that I can be my own weird self and be totally accepted for it. My friends and I are weird together all the time, and it's just so fun. We are awkward, but not the kind of timid-shy-unsure-of-yourself-awkward. We're at the point in our lives where we're awkward, we know it, and we're proud of it. We just do awkward and weirdness well. It just works for us.

Adventures
I'm so excited for all of the adventures we will have this year as sophomores. We all have the lay of the land better and a few more of us have wheels, so there's no telling what crazy adventures this year is going to entail. I just know that I can't wait. The memories are going to be grand and I can't wait to experience them with those I love and photograph them so that I can have them forever.

Framily
"Friends are family we choose for ourselves." That is what a framily is (they should really put that word in the dictionary already). Coming in as freshmen, we each had to go out searching for the people that would become a part of our story and enter into our framily, and that was stressful. Now, as a sophomore, I have my core friends in my framily, which is awesome! I won't go to school feeling so nervous about sticking my awkward self out there and meeting a zillion people at once. I have people there for me. Of course, there is room for more in my framily and I hope it grows a lot this year. I do love meeting new people, it's just nice to have the familiarity of my friends by my side as I do it this time. The other cool part about that is I get to live with a member of my framily and we are going to have some wildly fun times making mischief, living life together, and adding onto our story.

After all of that, I'm just sure that my sophomore year is going to be grand and it will surely not be forgotten, either.

To my TCU Babes, See Y'all in August! Get ready for the best year yet!

Yours Truly,
Steph